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Premise labels used: special ops, elite team, bioterrorism, weaponized science, mad science, counterterrorism, bioweapons, genetic engineering, super-soldier threat, monster outbreak, missions between novels, case files

Setting labels used: alternate reality, contemporary, military world, high-security facility, bio-research lab, urban operations, Afghanistan, Baltimore, Pine Deep, Paris, underground facility, global counterterrorism

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Patient Zero

Jonathan Maberry · 2009 · Joe Ledger

A Baltimore detective is recruited into a secret black-ops unit to stop terrorists unleashing a zombie-making bioweapon.

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Premise labels: secret agency · bioweapon outbreak · zombie plague · terrorism · counterterrorism · government task force · special ops · apocalypse threat · infectious threat · covert mission

Setting labels: Baltimore · United States · post-9/11 · Homeland Security · government black ops · secret facility · urban America · contemporary · counterterrorism world · international terrorism

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The Dragon Factory

Jonathan Maberry · 2010 · Joe Ledger

A covert ops team races to stop rival geneticists from unleashing engineered monsters and mass genocide.

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Premise labels: covert agency · genetic engineering · bioweapon plot · race-based genocide · mad scientist · extinction clock · black ops · monster creation

Setting labels: modern day · global · secret labs · government agencies · island base · underground labs · military operations

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Distance: 0.1957

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Wired

Douglas E. Richards · 2012 · Wired

A scientist’s brain-boosting breakthrough pulls a retired operative into a high-stakes chase of lies, power, and trust.

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Premise labels: enhanced intelligence · human augmentation · bioterror plot · cat and mouse chase · conspiracy thriller · save the world · secret mission · scientific breakthrough

Setting labels: near future · contemporary · government and military · special forces · research lab · high-tech world · global stakes

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Distance: 0.2307

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Extinction Horizon

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · 2014 · Extinction Cycle

A Delta Force team and a CDC virologist race to stop a weaponized virus turning the world into monsters.

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Premise labels: bioweapon outbreak · viral apocalypse · infected monsters · race for cure · special forces mission · end of the world

Setting labels: United States · Atlanta · Fort Bragg · California · offshore facility · research facility · post-apocalyptic · military installation · global outbreak · Vietnam

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Distance: 0.2346

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Dark Rising

Greig Beck · 2011 · Alex Hunter

A super-soldier and covert team race to stop a black-hole experiment in Iran before it unleashes a world-ending threat.

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Premise labels: black hole threat · covert mission · military team · scientific disaster · monster threat · counterterrorism · secret technology · world-ending stakes

Setting labels: Iran · Middle East · desert setting · underground facility · secret lab · ancient caves · contemporary setting

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Coldbrook

Tim Lebbon · 2014

A secret lab opens a doorway to another Earth, unleashing an infection that turns survival into a multiverse-wide crisis.

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Premise labels: secret laboratory · alternate Earth · portal accident · zombie outbreak · infection spread · cure hunt · immune survivor · multiverse crisis · scientific breakthrough

Setting labels: Appalachian Mountains · hidden research facility · underground lab · alternate Earth · multiverse · post-collapse world · apocalyptic future · top-secret facility · contemporary Earth

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Distance: 0.2475

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Aliens: Infiltrator

Weston Ochse · 2021 · Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe

A Weyland-Yutani scientist arrives at a remote station and finds secret experiments, sabotage, and Xenomorph chaos.

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Premise labels: corporate experiment · scientific research · alien artifact lure · contained outbreak · genetic experimentation · corporate espionage · hidden infiltrator · remote facility disaster · bioweapon development · monster creation

Setting labels: space station · remote planet · Weyland-Yutani facility · isolated base · future setting · corporate lab · off-world colony · science station · Alien universe · biohazard lab

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The Tide

Anthony J. Melchiorri · 2015 · The Tide

A covert CIA-linked team races to contain a bioweapon outbreak that turns people into relentless monsters before humanity falls.

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Premise labels: bioweapon outbreak · engineered pathogen · covert ops mission · race for cure · end of the world · lab leak · zombie-like infection · private military response

Setting labels: modern day · World War II prologue · abandoned oil rig · North Atlantic · United States · military base · secret lab · apocalyptic world · Fort Detrick

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Pulse

Jeremy Robinson · 2009 · Chess Team Adventure

An elite special-ops team hunts a genetics villain who wants immortality through a deadly mythic creature.

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Premise labels: elite special forces · genetic terrorism · immortality quest · monster hunt · mythic artifact · abduction rescue · stop weaponized regeneration · race against time · world threat · secret genetics company

Setting labels: modern day · global · Peru · Athens · Greece · Amazon · Pacific atoll · American campground · secret base · military black-ops · mythic reality · ancient artifact · contemporary science

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Alpha

Tiya Rayne · 2018 · Alpha

An abused, stuttering woman is abducted into a secret breeding program and drawn to the super soldier meant to be her mate.

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Premise labels: abduction · breeding program · super soldiers · genetic experimentation · mad scientist · forced captivity · alien-human hybrid · forced proximity · escape from captivity

Setting labels: secret facility · private military base · laboratory · compound · government program

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Distance: 0.2590

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Alien: Prototype

Tim Waggoner · 2019 · Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe

A corporate theft unleashes a mutated xenomorph on an isolated colony, forcing a battle-hardened trainer to stop it.

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Premise labels: corporate espionage · alien specimen · human test subject · bioweapon · containment breach · deadly outbreak

Setting labels: space colony · research facility · testing facility · isolated colony · hostile planet · deep space · futuristic setting

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Wolverine: Weapon X

Barry Windsor-Smith · 1994 · Marvel Comics Presents (1988)

A mutant is abducted into a secret experiment that turns him into a weapon through brutal body-horror science.

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Premise labels: origin story · weaponization · human experimentation · secret program · kidnapping · dehumanization · body horror · scientific horror

Setting labels: laboratory · research complex · military facility · underground facility · claustrophobic setting · dark setting · science fiction setting · modern setting

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